Watch the full illustrated talk (in french) by Mickael Tanter (research director at INSERM) about Ultrasound Neuroimaging, illustrated by Clayton Junior (comics artist of the webcomic BRAIN TRIPPERS) at the Fête de la Science in PARIS, Campus de Jussieu on Saturday 14 October 2017.

Watch the full illustrated talk (in french) by Christine Joblin (research director at CNRS Toulouse) & comics artist Lorenzo Palloni at the Fête de la Science in PARIS, Campus de Jussieu, on the 14th of October 2017

For the first time ever, a team of scientists and clinicians led by the EU-funded researcher Mickael Tanter has managed to record the brain activity of a premature new-born baby during resting and during an epileptic seizure.

On the occasion of the approaching World Refugee Day, we present our new online graphic novel "Expecting".

Undocumented pregnant women are a growing phenomenon: yet, few social science or public health studies address this subject. As a result, the EU funded the project EU Border Care, a comparative study of maternity care among undocumented migrants.

Especially relevant to this issue, our webcomic tells about two parallel stories: Sham and Matina. Sham is a Syrian refugee travelling to Greece, who discovers to be pregnant, and Matina is a Greek midwife working in a volunteering center.

The Principal Investigator of EU Border Care is Vanessa Grotti, who leads a team of researchers working on the field. Specifically, the researchers work in maternity wards located in French Guiana and Mayotte (Overseas France), the North Aegean and Attica (Greece), Sicily (Italy), and Ceuta and Melilla (Spain).

The artist working of the storyboard as well as the drawings for "Expecting" is Sandrine Martin. Sandrine published many graphic novels and illustrations, and you can find some of her works here.

ARE YOU AN ERC GRANTEE?

YOU COULD HAVE A WHOLE WEBCOMIC DEDICATED TO YOUR PROJECT!

ERCcOMICS, coordinated by Pierre and Marie Curie University-Paris 6 in partnership with La Bande Destinée, a French communication agency, is the result of an ERC call for proposals aiming to find “innovative way to highlight ERC projects”.

It is a creative and ambitious 4-year project which exploits the power of visual storytelling through webcomics to promote and explain the achievements of ERC funded projects and the benefits of the ERC funding scheme for technological and scientific development, as well as for society as a whole.

Each webcomic is the result of a close cooperation between the ERC grantee, the ERCcOMICS team and a comic artist. Depending on the subject, the webcomic could be a fictional or documentary story of any genre: science fiction, historical, thriller, autobiographical. Each webcomic, before publication, will always have the grantee’s final validation.
The webcomics will be widely disseminated through a great variety of communication tools and channels.

Each webcomic will be constituted of ca. 50 pages, which will be published in 10 chapters over a period of one year.

UPDATE : The application for «Draw your ERC» is closed. Many thanks to all participants!

ERCcOMICS, coordinated by Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 in partnership with La Bande Destinée, a French communication agency, is the result of an ERC call for proposals aiming to find “innovative ways to highlight ERC projects”.

It is a creative and ambitious 4-year project that exploits the power of visual storytelling through webcomics to promote and explain the achievements of ERC funded projects and the benefits of the ERC funding scheme for technological and scientific development, as well as for society as a whole.

Each comic will be the result of a close cooperation between the researcher, the ERCcOMICS team and a comic artist. Depending on the subject, the webcomic could be a fictional or documentary story of any genre: science fiction, historical, thriller, autobiographical. Each webcomic, before publication, will always have the grantee’s final validation.

The 4 selected ERC projects for the second year will be dealing with cosmic dust, neuroscience, ultrasounds imaging and migratory flux through european borders.

Each webcomic will be constituted of ca. 50 pages, which will be published in 10 chapters over a period of one year.

If you are a comic artist interested in science and you are willing to participate in this adventure, send an email to info@erccomics.com by October 30th, 2016.

Enjoy the Illustrated Talks which took place at UPMC on June 26, 2016, on our YouTube channel:Composing a song with Flow Machines
by François Pachet (ERC grant "Flow Machines") and Fiammetta Ghedini (drawings)

We are pleased & proud to present the first edition of the ERCcOMICS "Illustrated Talks".
The Illustrated talks feature four ERC grantees presenting their research vision, outputs and objectives, accompanied by an illustrator who will draw in real time, inspired by their speech.

You will discover how artificial intelligence can help musicians to compose a song; why lianas are proliferating in the rainforest; how physics can make an object invisibile; and how graphic interfaces will evolve in the future.

ARE YOU AN ERC GRANTEE?

YOU COULD HAVE A WHOLE WEBCOMIC DEDICATED TO YOUR PROJECT

ERCcOMICS, coordinated by Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 in partnership with La Bande Destinée, a French communication agency, is the result of an ERC call for proposals aiming to find “innovative ways to highlight ERC projects”.

It is a creative and ambitious 4-year project that exploits the power of visual storytelling through webcomics to promote and explain the achievements of ERC funded projects and the benefits of the ERC funding scheme for technological and scientific development, as well as for society as a whole.

Each comic will be the result of a close cooperation between the ERC grantee, the ERCcOMICS team and a comic artist. Depending on the subject, the webcomic could be a fictional or documentary story of any genre: science fiction, historical, thriller, autobiographical. Each webcomic, before publication, will always have the grantee’s final validation.

The webcomics will be widely disseminated, in several EU languages, and through a great variety of communication tools and channels.

Each webcomic will be constituted of ca. 50 pages, which will be published in 10 chapters over a period of one year.

If you are willing to participate in this venture, send an email to info@erccomics.com with the following information, by April 30th, 2016.

UPDATE : The application for «Draw your ERC» is closed. Many thanks to all participants!